Cassie Wilde now holds the Field girls soccer program’s single-season goals scored record with 35 and career goals scored record with 69 (and counting).
Tina Kessler/Special to Portage Sports

By Tom Nader

Publisher and Editor

Cassie Wilde makes the goal-scoring look easy, but that is not always the case.

Wilde, a senior, added to her historic career by becoming the Field High School girls soccer program’s all-time leading scorer last week in a victory over Coventry.

Wilde collected her 68th career goal to best the previous record that was set by Brooke Bowser in 2017.

And Wilde is still adding to her total, scoring her 69th goal on Tuesday in a tie with Norton.

Bowser also previously held the single-season goals record that Wilde broke last season as a junior when she finished with 35.

“As a coach, you have to be inspired, grateful and thankful for a player who conducts themselves like Cassie does,” second-year head coach Jason Schindler said. “I often tell her, ‘thank you,’ because even though she is not 100 percent, I never have to worry about her not giving her all or that she will quit.”

Wilde has played her way through a pair of injuries this season.

The forward and team captain missed the majority of the preseason with a right foot injury, then sustained a right quad injury during the first half of the Falcons’ matchup with Cloverleaf on Aug. 30.

There was not much that was going to keep Wilde from playing for her team, though.

“Cassie is an extremely hard working, goal oriented and determined person,” Schindler said.

Prior to the start of the 2021 season, Wilde vocalized that her goal was to break the single-season record for goals scored.

Then, before the 2022 campaign began, she set another goal, which was to break the school’s career goals scored mark.

Both are now in Wilde’s name.

“Even though Cassie has set and achieved her individual goals, she has never put herself or her personal goals above the team,” Schindler said. “She has always understood her role on the field, within the team as a captain and has always conducted herself with class and maturity well beyond her age.”

As a four-year letterwinner, Wilde is now guaranteed four more games. The Falcons have regular-season matchups with Rootstown (Saturday), at Woodridge (Tuesday) and at Medina Highland (Oct. 8) before the opening round of the postseason.

“Cassie is playing like a senior,” Schindler said. “She knows what each passing match means and regardless of pain or other adversity, she is going to leave everything on the field.”